I have started writing and rewriting all the things that needed to be said in this book. I knew in my own mind that its subject matter would not ever make this the stuff of Govenor Generals Awards or other literary notations.
Most looking would probably give it a once over if not pass by as many are drawn to the fascination of alternative history, drama, romance, or other fictional works. The thought of nonfiction often only scares away readers. The topics of mental illness poverty, and transformation not only spiritually, but also ones coming of age make for good stories but often never go into print.
This is a story written from my eyes with the help of those around me and have passed through my life. Some in fleeting seconds some lasting a lifetime. It's not only a love story of a time that grew from the depths of depression and delusion to the realities of the opening of one's eyes to new beginnings It is a classic remembrance of what was what has changed, What should have never and the immediate reality that in the end death chases us all not us chasing it.
It's a story of real hero's and saints that put others' lives before theirs and brought peace and the helping hand each of us needs out of a world marred with the bitterness of marginalization into a world of harmony with not only ourselves, but those around us.
It's a story of a love for a city and community still racked with developing programs for the people who so desperately need them, and the many faces of those disenfranchised or displaced, and those who strive in some small way to ease that burden.
Most of all it's my story and that of the Capuchin Friars of Toronto who took me from the streets and gave me the strength to build something better.
Welcome to Our Place and the Friars of St Francis!
This book is lovingly dedicated to Father Joseph MacDonald, Sister Margret Quinn and the gang at St Francis house and especially Micheal Wilson who brought his love and energy to Our place Community of Hope and was tragically murdered on his way from the dance,
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